September 16 - September 22, 2001
      THE BOSTON AREA PHYSICS CALENDAR
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_______________________________________Monday, September 17, 2001

Monday, September 17, 2001 2:00pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Particle Theory Research Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, third floor seminar room
"Using effective field theory and broken symmetry to solve the puzzle of
collective mode damping in Bose-Einstein condensates"
W. Vincent Liu
MIT

Wednesday, September 19, 2001 at 2:00PM
Massachusetts Insitute of Technology
String Seminar
Center for Theoretical Physics
Building 6, Third Floor Seminar Room
``Toric Duality and Seiberg Duality"
Amihay Hanany
MIT

Monday, September 17, 2001 4:15pm
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Physics Colloquium
Kolker Room, 26-414
"Can One Measure the Number of Colors in Low-Energy Experiments?"
Oliver Baer
M.I.T
Refreshments will be served at 4:00pm


Monday, September 17, 2001, 4:30 PM
Harvard University
Monday Physics Colloquium
Jefferson Lab., Room 250
"Nanowires as Building Blocks for Nanoscale Science and Technology"
Professor Charles M. Lieber
Harvard University
Tea in Jefferson 450 at 4:00 pm



Tuesday, September 18, 2001

Tuesday, September 18, 2001 at 12:00noon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
String Lunch Club
Center for Theoretical Physic
Building 6- 3rd Floor Seminar Room
``Supergravity duals of gauge theories
from gauged supergravity in sex dimensions"
Martin Schvellinger, MIT
Tuesday, September 18, 2001 at 2:00pm*
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Theory Seminar * new time
Center for Theoretical Physic
Building 6- 3rd Floor Seminar Room
"Chiral Behaviour of quark distributions from lattice QCD"
William Detmold
University of Adelaide
Refreshments served at 1:45pm

Wednesday, September 19, 2001

Wednesday, September 19, 2001, 4:15pm
Boston College
Department of Physics Colloquium
Higgins Hall, Room 310
"Technology and Applications of Carbon Nanotubes"
Professor Zhifeng Ren
Boston College
Coffee served prior to colloquium in Higgins 230L

Wednesday, September 19, 2001 4:30pm
Harvard University
Joint Theory Seminar
Jefferson 256
"Quantum Computing and Computationally Difficult Problems"
Eddie Farhi
MIT
Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory Coffee Area at 4:00pm

Thursday, September 20, 2001

Thursday, September 20, 2001, 4:00pm
Clark University
Physics Colloquium
Sackler Science Center
Room BP-359
"Foam Drainage and Coarsening Experiments and Theory"
Stephan Koehler, DEAS
Harvard University

Thursday, September 20, 2001 4:15pm
Harvard University
Duality Seminar
Jefferson 453
"Supersymmetric Fuzzy Funnels and Calibrated Geometry"
Neil Constable (MIT)
Refreshments will be offered in the High Energy Theory Coffee Area at 3:45pm

Thursday, September 20, 2001, 7:30pm
New England Section/Optical Society of America
Monthly Meeting
Polaroid Optical Engineering, 1265 Main St., Bldg W1, Waltham
"Precision Plastic Optics at Polaroid"
Peter Clark, Doug Goodman, and Donald Combs  Polaroid Corp.
Dinner served at 6:30pm


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